About Andrei

I keep this diary for the films that stay with me and for the ones I haven't seen yet. It is a place for reviews written after the walk home, and for notes written months before a film even opens.

I follow directors more than genres. I pay attention to festivals. I notice when a filmmaker disappears and when they come back. I write about what a film made me feel and why I think it did.

My parents named me after Andrei Tarkovsky before I had any say in the matter, and I have spent my life growing into it. I was born and raised in Lima, Peru, and now live in Munich, where the kind of cinema I always wanted to see is finally playing nearby.